At the beginning of the verse the Prophet introduces the Jews as making a clamor, as the unbelieving are wont to do, who, while they reject the favor of God, yet wish to appear to do so with some reason. And what is its peculiar character? 2. What? Let me picture the discovery of grace as it comes to the awakening mind, when it learns to sit at the feet of Jesus, saved by faith in the great sacrifice. A revelation of God’s love is foundational to everything. ), The place of love among Divine attributes, According to the Catechism of the Westminster Assembly, “God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth” A very comprehensive and noble definition, no doubt I yet did it never strike you as strange that there is no mention of love here? and why dost thou not bring forward some ground for present joy? “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.” What exceeding love the Lord showed to us before we knew Him! This is the way GOD put it: “They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Kindness is always attractive; and its attracting power is always in proportion to its spontaneity, disinterestedness, and magnanimity. Finally she said, I have made up my mind that if I cannot rule the school by love, I will give it up. What multitudes of persons have been drawn to the Lord first by His loving-kindness in the gift of His dear Son! A wonderful display. ), I. Go back behind creation, before the Divine will had generated a single atom of matter, and in that very we discover ourselves in a perfect, living, actual conception, subjective being was embraced, nourished, and delighted in by “everlasting love.” The love of God is not an emotion of delight created by the appearance of comeliness, but delight itself; not an emotion excited by beauty, but beauty itself. You see the child running in from the garden full of tears, and saying, “Something has hurt me.” On examination it is found that a thorn is in one of the fingers. “I have drawn thee,” the Lord says; and this is very naturally and beautifully said here. We shall come to die, and this shall be a downy pillow for our death-bed, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” When we wake up in that dread world to which we arc surely hastening, we shall find infinite felicity in “everlasting love.” When the judgment is proclaimed, and the sight of the great white throne makes all hearts to tremble, and the trumpet sounds exceeding loud and long, and our poor dust wakes up from its silent grave, we shall rejoice in this Divine assurance: “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Roll on, ye ages, but everlasting love abides! With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. I used to feel the power of words, but now I have felt the immeasurable energy of their substance. ].”], 2. Why did an assembly, for piety, learning, and talents, the greatest perhaps that ever met in England, or anywhere else, in that catalogue of Divine attributes, assign no place to love? Although embracing sinners, the love of God is discriminating, and pure, and righteous love. Its primary reference is to Israel at the restoration, when the Lord returns to bless Zion and restore Jerusalem. It is” personal and individual. Such a magnificent text as ours ought to make us consider two things. The more you love, the more you will be capacitated for manifestations of love. Closing remarks:--. 2. 4. So Psalms 36:10. A.). Although a text from Jeremiah may seem discontinuous with the Isaianic focus of the lectionary for this Christmas season, Jeremiah 31:7-14 possesses an Isaianic pattern. It is immeasurable, even as God Himself is beyond conception. I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. II. God not only loves us; He loves us everlastingly. Were we not captives? Between me and the great Jehovah there have been communications; the solitary silences have been broken. He will draw them by His loving-kindness, and He will draw them by that lovingly, most kindly and tenderly. It may be said to encounter two obstacles within us: our fears at times, and then, what seems the very opposite, our pride and self-confidence. Therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.—Some translators render I have preserved (or respited) thee, others I have continued my loving kindness to thee, as in Psalm 36:10; Psalm 109:12; but the LXX., Vulg., and Luther agree with the English Version, and it finds sufficient support in the meaning of the Hebrew verb and in the parallel of Hosea 11:4. That love knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 1. This appearance came in private assurance. It is not derived, or imparted, or excited by us in the sense of being awakened by us. But the truth is, that our proud hearts do not like to be so stripped of all goodness, or to be made so entirely dependent on God. I wonder how any one can resist the love of God in Jesus Christ! 1. ", III. This appearance of the Lord must be personal. And it is no less evident, that the general restoration of Israel, the subject of the discourse which he had heard during his vision, so much to his satisfaction, is not yet accomplished, nor entered upon, nor is there any certainty when it exactly will be. To his surprise, as soon as they were alone, the teacher began to talk in the kindest way to him, telling him how it grieved her to have him disobey. But Christ’s love is fed by no contributions from without, and will outlast the burnt-out sun, and gladden the ages of ages for ever. A declaration of god’s love. All sorrow is a gift, and every trouble that the heart of man has, an opportunity. Yea, saith the Lord, wouldst thou speak, of ancient love, how ancient wouldst thou make it? The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. 2. The distinguishing constitution He has given him. That last appearance was the most perfect expression of love, that last revelation left nothing unsaid that even Divine love could say. 1. But what say the profane?” He, thou tellest us what has been written, but this is remote from us, and through length of time has vanished away: what is antiquity to us?” But though the Jews used this sacrilegious language, let us yet learn to embrace whatever is set before us in Scripture, while God invites us to hope for mercy, and at the same time exhorts us to patience; nor let this blasphemy ever fall from our mouths; nay, let not this thought ever creep into our hearts, “God appeared a long while ago.” Let us then abominate the ingratitude of those who would have God to be always present, and yet pay no regard to his ancient benefits. Jeremiah 30 Jeremiah 32 ... Advance your knowledge of Scripture with this resource library of over 40 reference books, including commentaries and Study Bible notes. III. “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me.” Oh, that He would appear now! God loves us everlastingly. Our love is a taper, shining on a few objects only and on those dimly; the love of God is a sun, throwing its light wide as it is His good pleasure to throw it, pervading His universe, brightening and warming and gladdening millions on millions of objects as easily and effectually as one. It states that the Lord will certainly fulfil His pledge to re-gather His chosen people back into their own land. And the same thing Jeremiah meant to express here, At a remote time Jehovah appeared to us; that is, “Thou indeed speakest in high terms of the redemption by which the fathers were liberated, but what is that to us? And love is everlasting. As a little boy, Joe experienced abuses of all kinds coming from a well-known leader who set him up—abuses too terrible to mention here. He fills all space with His presence; there is no limit to His capabilities. The Lord did not cut us off in our unbelief; therein is love. Into the arms of “everlasting love.”. Jeremiah 31:3 Context. I am Jehovah that change not, whatever thou mayest think of me, because I seem angry at thy misdoings. “With lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Ah, how gently, how tenderly, how silently, sometimes mysteriously, but ever in love. We yield to the drawings because they come from the Lord s own hand, and their power lies in His love. and What hast thou which thou hast not received? 2. (Read Jeremiah 31:35-40) As surely as the heavenly bodies will continue their settled course, according to the will of their Creator, to the end of time, and as the raging sea obeys him, so surely will the Jews be continued a separate people. I. Uncreated men are the objects of Divine love. 1. Never let us lose sight of the glorious Deity of Jesus. It is manifest from Jeremiah 31:26 that the prophet had been in a vision or trance, out of which he awaked. We have a magnet, but oh, how few there are who yield to the attracting power! See Jeremiah 30:10. I. There is the source of everything that is good and gracious: “everlasting love.” The Lord had been bruising, and wounding, and crushing His people, and yet He says, “I have loved thee.” These cruel wounds were all in love. We cannot measure the breadth of God’s love.—I have a very many-sided nature. ],” which we all know to be the work of God; and a resurrection from the dead, which is equally beyond any finite power to effect [Note: Ephesians 2:1. with 1:19, 20.]. Passing along the streets, one hears the words of a song or catches the strains of a piece of music being played, and he says, “That is from Beethoven or Mozart, I recognise the movement.” So in this life, we catch strains of the love of God. Everlasting evidently lasts for ever. As we enter the 31 st chapter of the book of Jeremiah, we continue to hear the contents of the “book” that God commanded Jeremiah to write back in Jeremiah 30:2. Oh! There is nothing that can occur in reference to the objects on whom God s love is fixed that He did not foresee, and there is no change that can occur in the Divine mind as to any improvement in His plan and order of government, or manifestation of mercy to man. He is the God of every individual, as much as if no other object of his love existed in the whole creation besides; and they are his exclusively, and without reserve. It is not the Lord’s desire that He should be as a stranger in the land, or as a wayfaring man that tarrieth but for a night. III. To all that is evil in human life and human history, whether in Gentile or in Jew, God is a consuming fire. How much has love said in this world--how much it says to you this day. yea, bond-slaves? Jeremiah 31:4. It foresaw all the rebellion, backslidings, frailties, sins, infirmities--everything that would characterise the individual upon whom that love rested; and yet the Lord loved you, because He would love you; and that is the only reason that love itself can assign, because He would keep the covenant which He made with His own Son for you. The Lord said of Cyrus, “I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me”; and even so may He say of many an unconverted man, “I warned thee, and aroused thee, and drew thee when thou wast not aware of Me.” Besides this, we are so selfish that, when God is drawing us to Himself, we are too much absorbed in our own things to notice the hand which is at work upon us. It is a Love bounded by His Will. On this Reformation Sunday, we hear words of promise from the prophet Jeremiah, words about a new covenant and a renewed relationship between God and God’s people. It requires nothing in any object, no merit or amiableness or beauty or anything else, to call it forth. Lot your spirit lie and soak in this Divine assurance: “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Take it up into yourself as Gideon’s fleece absorbed the dew. It was the Holy Spirit who was leading you out of yourself; and God by the Holy Spirit was appearing unto you. You have provoked Him to jealousy by gods which were no gods, but He has never ceased His love. Margin translates, 'from afar,' which does not answer so well as "of old" to "in the wilderness" (Jeremiah 31:2), which refers to the olden times of Israel's history. What was this but slavery? (a) You tell us what was done of old; but these are ancient things, and little pertaining to us, who are now under a heavy captivity; iam refrixit et obsoleta videtur Dei beneficentia. 1. A confirmation afterwards follows, Therefore have I prolonged towards thee my mercy I have already said, that this clause is otherwise rendered and explained. Religion is a personal thing. Therefore with lovingkinduess have I drawn thee. ], 1. You may imagine inscriptions like these: “To the memory of friendship”; “To the memory of parental and filial affection”; “To the memory of marriage sacredness and devotion.” But those fires, which once burnt brightly, have gone out for want of fuel, or for something that is worse. The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. So Isaiah 44:21, “O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of Me.”, ‘I have loved thee with an everlasting love.’, I. "Therefore I have preserved my grace to thee.". There is, moreover, a peculiar sensitiveness about love; it craves for fresh utterances, for strong, unequivocal assertions, just as Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him as his own soul; so the love of God is so essential to us that we cannot live without it, we prize it above all things, and hence we long to hear, in the depths of our souls, the words, “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.”. Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.] He drew us because He loved us with an everlasting love. ].” It was thus also with the Apostles themselves: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain [Note: John 15:16. Will you dart your eye on to the ninth verse, and read the last part of it? For first, man is not in a condition to perceive God till God reveals Himself to him. And let me here make two remarks concerning love generally,--First, its existence is universal, except as sin reigns and checks it; and, secondly, its work and its service are multiform and extensive. So Isa 44:21, "O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of Me.". How personal always was the ministry of our Lord! Israel gratefully acknowledges in reply God‘s past grace; but at the same time tacitly implies by the expression “of old,” that God does not appear to her now. Thus, they facetiously deride whatever God has at any time testified in his word, as though it were obsolete, because it is ancient. The love of God answers to these definitions. Seek only to know how much he has loved you, and you will soon be constrained to love him, and to delight yourselves in him.]. No cloud can extinguish it, however it may obscure it; no misery, born of the depths of human despair, no tragedy of human agony or of human crime, can make that love doubtful; it is still there, it is around us, it is with us; its everlasting arms are holding us even when we cannot feel it, and grasping us in its soft embrace although our feet may be bleeding and sore with the hardness of the road along which we travel. These drawings are to be continuous. Neither can we put any end to that love, for it can only end with himself; and as he had no beginning, so he has no ending. I. See notes on Isaiah 44:7. We need new, constant assurances of the Divine love. He hates our sins and will punish those sins. In all respects is the love of God, Godlike--equal with God. Jeremiah 31:3. (18-20) The promised Saviour. (10-17) Ephraim laments his errors. If He came to us from far, He will surely come again now that He has made us nigh. It is still crying to us; it abides as an everlasting fact. The love of God towards us. He there shews that we are to learn patience from the examples contained in the Scripture, and that we have there a ground for strong consolation, so that we may cherish hope until God delivers us from all miseries. The matchless declaration. Would you measure His love to you? Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 7:9). Long before the Cross was raised on the brow of Calvary. This is love that deserves the name. because his covenant remains the same; and, therefore, his power to deliver us will remain the same. Stagger not at it. xxv., p. 209. I. Nothing but the applause of men. He loves you individually; and His loving a large number is by His loving each one in that number. “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me.” True knowledge of God is always a Divine operation, not wrought at second-hand by instrumentality, but wrought by the right hand of the Lord Himself. The life of the newborn soul may be said to begin with the uprising of this knowledge, this faith. The evidence of it follows: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee; out of a state of nature; out of Satan's hands; out of the pit wherein is no water, the horrible pit, the mire and clay; unto Christ, his person, blood, righteousness, and fulness, by faith to lay hold upon them; unto his church, and to a participation of the ordinances and privileges of it; to nearer communion with God, and at last will draw to eternal glory. The eternity of Divine love is a subject which we cannot fathom, but we may look at it in relation to our own being. The incarnation of Christ is at once the effect, the channel, and the instrument of Divine love, and the Divine love that draws with a moral magnetism of the highest measure. It is eternal--it ever will be, as it always hath been. The voice of God is not still because man does not hear it, and the love of. [Note: Scalise, p108. And thus also is best confuted that impiety and blasphemy of the people, that God had formerly appeared to them; “Nay,” he says, “except thou suppressest most wickedly my benefits, thou must perceive that the benefits I conferred on thy fathers have been long extended to thee, and have been perpetual and manifold.” (22), We now perceive the real meaning of the Prophet. : the copulative ו is here an adversative, as though he had said, Nay, or Yea, for it may also be taken for גם, gam, “Yea, I have loved thee with perpetual love.” Then God answers the ungodly, and shews, that he having become once the liberator of his people, did not undertake this office through a momentary impulse, but because he had so promised to Abraham, and had adopted the people. II. Learn more. Try it for 30 days FREE. When the Lord does so appear, we then perceive that He has been dealing with us. Or, Therefore will I draw out lovingkindness towards thee. The prayer of many has been, “Create in me a clean heart, O God”; and they have been charmed by hearing that whosoever believes in Jesus is born again, to start on a new life, ruled by a new principle, and endowed with a new nature, sustained by the Holy Spirit. But with perpetual love have I loved thee, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary by J.C.Philpot on select texts of the Bible. (S. (2) ‘From no less fountain such a stream could flow. Neither in the hour of death, nor yet in the ageless years that stretch beyond. But to God’s everlasting love is our salvation ascribed in our text; and to that alone can it with truth or propriety ever be ascribed: “I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.”], Now this is the plain doctrine of Scripture—, [God does not lore us because we first loved him; but “we love him because he first loved us [Note: 1 John 4:19. What is it? Read Jeremiah 31 commentary using Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete). The covenant between God and Israel, the covenant made so long ago … Continue reading "Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34" A wonderful instrument. This will best “put to silence the ignorance of foolish men,” who imagine that the doctrines of grace are subversive of morality, and that the honour which you give to God is only a cloak for idleness and sin. Is it any peculiar fitness in this or that man, which occasions God to single him out as an object to be drawn by him; or is the mercy vouchsafed by God to whomsoever he will, according to his own sovereign will and pleasure? Believe it. why dost thou not really prove that God is propitious to us? This love displays itself in Christ. The magnetic influence of God’s loving-kindness, What a delightful thing it is to be drawn. “Everlasting love” embraces that whole. It has no dying day. The matchless declaration of the text is a voice of love in the present. His most wise, righteous, and holy Will, (Exodus 33:19). Many have deep wounds coming from them. Here is a word from God of amazing love. There is a beginning for the world, but there is no beginning for the love of God to His people. Did you observe in this chapter how the Lord secures His love to His people, first, by a covenant? To which the prophet replies by assuring them that God’s love was not a temporary love, manifested to a single generation, but it was an everlasting love; therefore he had drawn them with loving-kindness, he had all along dealt graciously with them, that way attempting to oblige them to that duty which they owed to him: this drawing with loving-kindness he calleth a drawing with the cords of men, Hosea 11:4, who ordinarily are little wrought upon by force, but won by love. it is “to be conformed to the image of his Son [Note: Romans 8:29. 2. Is it not delight in an object, and is it not desire to promote the well-being of an object? The Lord kills before He makes alive. We feel as if the powers of nature were strong in us, and the sense of sin dies down; we feel as if God would overlook our sins, and that we are not so sinful after all; we feel as if we might trust to His goodness, as if it were, so to speak, good nature. ].” Has he created you anew? Nor does that exhaust the meaning of “everlasting love.” There has never been a moment when the Lord has not loved His people. Moreover, God must explain His dealings to us by revealing Himself to us, because those ways are in themselves frequently mysterious. xxxiii., No. Sometimes that picture is in words of sympathy, of love, of encouragement, and inspiration. The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness. How strange it is, that when we have listened to the words of truth, we sometimes feel as if visions we had dimly seen were realised, or our confused thoughts were put into shape, and expressed in words, as if this was what we had heard before, or were on the point of thinking out for ourselves. It began not in Egypt; not with the Patriarchs; not with the creation of the world; but from everlasting. 3. 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